The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just in case it wasn’t clear, that’s a horrifying discovery. Like the extinction of all life on earth.

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hopefully enough things can adapt in time and then something can give it another go

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    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      FWIW, the Earth has about 500-600My left before common photosynthesis is no longer possible due to fallout from the sun heating up gradually. My understanding is that unless complex life somehow adapts, then that will be the end of it on Earth, with simpler life presumably surviving for billions more years past that mark.

      Point is– if complex life can survive the coming collapse, then it evidently does have a healthy window to work with. I believe that might be helped out by the ‘churning of the continents,’ in which landmass gets regularly cycled back in to the magma layer over the course of millions of years, with new areas appearing on the other edges, so to speak.

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  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But billionaires need bigger yachts. And more mansions. What’re we to do? Can’t sacrifice the billionaires ultra-mega-yachts.

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    • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dark colored yachts

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s actually not clear at all. How did you draw this conclusion from what’s written here? It cites decreased pollution across the northern hemisphere as one of the drivers of this, for example, and how is that horrifying?

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• BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I sure hope they figure his out for all of the people dumb enough to still be having children.

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  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They already did, and current policy is to ignore it

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    • BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, they are certainly profiting from the despair.

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• archonet@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  at this point I’m fully expecting the only thing that keeps us from extincting ourselves with global warming is almost extincting ourselves with nuclear winter.

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  • cm0002@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    See we got this! We’re just going to get rid of mice climate change with a snake nuclear winter!

    They’ll just cancel each other out perfectly 😌

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    • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t wish for this to happen, mind you, but we are clearly living in the dumbest possible timeline, and so it is the only solution that makes sense

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• PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Emo Earth letsgoooo!

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  • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hate you (but I also love you)

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• jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is how it started on Venus too!

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